Episode 344 : Who Owns Your (mod) Content?
What has Blizzard done to Warcraft III?
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head right into the weekly raid (our news roundup).
Kicking things off this week, The Wonderful 101 has a new kickstarter and it’s got one hell of a hype train going. Christophe Gans is coming back to the world of Silent Hill and is also ready to tap into the world of Fatal Frame and The Last of Us part 2 is getting one heck of a rating from the ESRB.
Also this week, we dive deep into the world of EA’s microtransactions. Blumhouse is brining a whole new adaptation of “The Thing” to the big screen, and we close out the news talking all about the big announcements from the world of Overwatch.
Our Boss Room this week is about Warcraft III: Reforged, and rights ownership over game modifications.
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Episode 343 : Sony’s Changing The Game
Will Sony’s new direction change the landscape of gaming?
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head right into the weekly raid (our news roundup).
Kicking things off this week, Torchlight 3 has been announced and we could not be more excited. The developers of Hellblade announced a new experimental title and The Boys is coming back to comics in a huge way.
Also this week, more Marvel shows are getting axed from Hulu. The Witcher is getting an animated feature and Justice League Dark is getting picked back up by Bad Robot. We close out the news this week with huge esports changes coming thanks to Activision Blizzard.
Our Boss Room this week is about Sony first party titles coming to PC and what that means for the future of gaming.
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Episode 333 : Halfway To Evil At BlizzCon
Blizzcon is over, but is the hype still there?
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head right into the weekly raid (our news roundup).
Kicking things off this week, EA makes their way back to Steam and that means big things for their games. HBO MAX is getting a whole lot of DC properties and that could mean the end of DC Universe and the creators of the Game of Thrones television show are leaving their announced Star Wars projects.
Also this week, Miyamoto is being honored in Japan and it’s about time. Sony is killing it this week by both having the second best console of all time and shutting down their disliked Vue service. The news comes to a close this week with a discussion about Seth MacFarlane’s newest horror show and we let you know what spooky shows killed it in the ratings last month.
Our Boss Room this week is a talk about anything and everything shown at Blizzcon, and if we should really be excited for any of it.
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Episode 331 : Will Battle Pass Save Us
Is the Battle Pass our freedom from microtransactions?
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head right into the weekly raid (our news roundup).
Kicking things off this week, we follow up on Activision Blizzard and talk about all the news that came out about them since our last episode. We head over to the world of HBO Max with a new show being brought to us from the creators of “Riverdale” and “Sabrina”. From there we get into why Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is getting a delay and why that could be a good thing for everyone.
Also this week, Hawkeye is getting a new, really cool sounding series. Venom 2 is getting a new villain added to its ranks, and the creator of The Punisher finally speaks out about police co-opting the Punisher’s logo. We close out the news this week talking about Devolver’s opinion on the Steam vs Epic store debate, and Capcom teases us with talks about revitalizing old IPs that they own.
Our Boss Room this week is about the Modern Warfare Battle Pass and if it’s the answer to the microtransaction model plaguing modern video games.
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Episode 330 : The Great Chinese Entertainment Takeover
What’s really going on with Blizzard working with China?
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head right into the weekly raid (our news roundup).
Kicking things off this week, we come back from our break swinging as we talk about who ELSE is probably joining this years “Crisis On Infinite Earths” crossover. We get into a huge debate over Scorsese’s comment on the Marvel films not being “true cinema” and DOOM Eternal gets pushed back to 2020. We wrap up the news this week with all the PS5 reveals and what that means for the future for Sony Entertainment.
Our Boss Room this week is broken into two parts: Chinese influence on modern entertainment, and China’s influence on recent Hearthstone/Blizzard events.
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